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@@ -51,23 +51,23 @@ This module provides an exception and a function:
\subsection{Database Objects \label{dbhash-objects}}
The database objects returned by \function{open()} provide the methods
-common to all the DBM-style databases. The following methods are
-available in addition to the standard methods.
+common to all the DBM-style databases and mapping objects. The following
+methods are available in addition to the standard methods.
\begin{methoddesc}[dbhash]{first}{}
- It's possible to loop over every key in the database using this method
- and the \method{next()} method. The traversal is ordered by
+ It's possible to loop over every key/value pair in the database using
+ this method and the \method{next()} method. The traversal is ordered by
the databases internal hash values, and won't be sorted by the key
values. This method returns the starting key.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[dbhash]{last}{}
- Return the last key in a database traversal. This may be used to
+ Return the last key/value pair in a database traversal. This may be used to
begin a reverse-order traversal; see \method{previous()}.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[dbhash]{next}{}
- Returns the key next key in a database traversal. The
+ Returns the key next key/value pair in a database traversal. The
following code prints every key in the database \code{db}, without
having to create a list in memory that contains them all:
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ for i in xrange(1, len(d)):
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[dbhash]{previous}{}
- Returns the previous key in a forward-traversal of the database.
+ Returns the previous key/value pair in a forward-traversal of the database.
In conjunction with \method{last()}, this may be used to implement
a reverse-order traversal.
\end{methoddesc}